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To: jttmab who wrote (210141)	12/8/2006 3:15:23 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The last thing I would go is denigrate any one's decision on charitable contributions. All right I'll take you off the list. A random sample of somewhat more than 1,000. But you've failed to correctly identify me as denigrating religious givers, so that's problematic in itself. You should probably contract an independent polling organization and let them do the job right. So are your opinions meaningless unless supported by a "professional" poll? BTW "independent polling organizations" are marketing businesses and they'll give you the results you want. The government has been trying to encourage jobs that way for at least 30 years with little success. So its reasonable to disbelieve "the idea that government offers the best solution to social issues". Sure charities don't create jobs. Businesses create jobs. But the right charities do prepare and motivate people to become more employable. Do you think the WPA was a complete failure and waste of government effort and that charities would have picked up the ball during the depression along with business? Geez, the WPA was before my time and probably yours. How can we know. Do people have to reach back that far to find government programs that work (allegedly)? I just dumped a charity because they lied to me. So I have to either find another charity or up my contributions to the other charities I already support. I've been picking charities based on their lower administrative costs. Maybe I should have been picking charities with higher administrative costs since that suggests they are more serious about fund raising. Advice - ignore solicitations. Choose a cause that is meaningful to you and select a charity or two for investigation re. things like administrative costs etc. Then give to those.